Jint'ar Darvek’s Reviews > From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism > Status Update

Despite their differences, the 60’s Counterculture and the New Left shared an interest in cybernetics and McLuhanism. Particularly the belief that society would guarantee its liberation by reformatting itself as a computational system.
Given this family history, it should be no surprise at how easily the biggest American tech firms recuperated and then swept aside identity politics.